“The Mariners’ great fans will have to wait a while longer for the championship they deserve, but in Shipwrecked, at least they’ve now got the book they deserve.”—Rob NeyerSB Nation, National Baseball Editor

“Seattle fans will enjoy this fun, often critical and always thorough history of the franchise’s ups and all too many downs. Chuck Armstrong and Howard Lincoln, however, probably will not.”—Jim CapleESPN.com, Senior Baseball Writer

“An objective and analytical look at a franchise still seeking its first championship. Wells does more than chronicle Mariners history; he dissects it.”—David LaurilaFanGraphs

“A sobering, brutally honest glance at the moves and misfires of one of baseball’s last two teams to never make a World Series.”—Geoff BakerMariners Beat-Writer, The Seattle Times

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” --Henry David Thoreau